Microsoft Project Professional 2007

In a competitive, results-driven, idea-rich environment, starting and completing projects that deliver results is critical. Microsoft Office Project 2007 Professional helps you organize your resources and use all the processes to implement and communicate ideas, goals, and projections.

Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 includes all the features of Office Project Standard 2007, plus it provides enterprise collaborative project management capabilities when used with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Track and analyze projects effectively and get better visibility into schedule and impact of changes. Benefit from better financial control and more comprehensive analysis.

Office Project Professional 2007 provides robust project management tools with the right mix of ease of use, power, and flexibility to help employees manage projects more efficiently and effectively. Customers are able to manage project work, schedules, and finances more effectively. By integrating tools with familiar Microsoft Office programs, powerful reporting, guided planning and flexible tools, project teams can become more aligned and productive. For advanced project management and collaboration needs, Office Project Professional 2007 can be connected to Project Server 2007 and includes all the standalone features offered in Office Project Standard 2007. Custom metrics help you track data relevant to your project - Percent Complete, Budget vs. Actual, Earned Value, and more Track project performance over the life of the project by saving project snapshots in up to 11 baselines Customize the software to meet your needs - Choose custom display panels; modify toolbars, formulas, graphical indicators, and reports; use XML, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and Component Object Model (COM) add-ins to facilitate data sharing and the creation of custom solutions

Understand and control project schedules with Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

Project 2007 helps you effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes, while benefiting from better financial control and more comprehensive analysis. This application now provides the ability to quickly identify factors affecting task data and easily find the root cause of problems. In particular, the improved task drivers help you determine the factor affecting the task start date (e.g., task dependency, calendar constraints, schedule, or vacation time), so you can trace a chain of factors to find the cause of a specific delay. Project 2007 also automatically highlights any items that are delayed due to recent changes. You can even undo tasks or groups of tasks from macros, giving you the ability to test multiple "what if" scenarios to fully understand the impact of each decision as the project scope changes.

Communicate and present project information effectively

Project Standard 2007 provides powerful planning and advanced features to help you improve the organization of your projects. Easily report and communicate information in a variety of formats, depending on the needs of stakeholders. New leverage charts and graphs attract attention thanks to the Visual Reports feature, which uses Excel and Visio Professional to create PivotTable views, charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data. You can also change the background color of a cell or row with Background Cell Highlighting. Shade cells, similar to Excel, to convey additional meaning. In addition, any user can easily define custom report templates and share them with other Project users.

Flexible project tracking

Project 2007 provides flexible project tracking and analysis by helping you calculate and track project-specific metrics by defining custom fields based on your formulas. And to keep you on track, graphical indicators can alert you when certain conditions are met.

Improved views and sharing

With new improvements to the calendar interface and the addition of 3D Gantt bars, Project 2007 lets you create even more powerful reports. When it's time to share, use Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services workspaces (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later) integrated with the Project Guide task pane, an interactive step-by-step guide that helps you set up projects, manage tasks and resources, track status, and create project reports.

System Requirements

Processor: 500 MHz or higher
Main memory: at least 256 MB
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or higher
Monitor: 1024x768 or higher is recommended
Drive: CD or DVD drive